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  • #121
  • Nov 25, 2007 9:55am Nov 25, 2007 9:55am
"I'm sure there are highly profitable pros somewhere who trade wave patterns, moving averages, chart formations, and the like. In several years of working hands on with such traders, however, I have yet to meet one who uses these methods. The pros do, on the other hand, care very much about who is in the markets and why markets are moving. The principles provide a framework for making sense of market behavior, which then can be used to filter the setups provided by charts, cycles, and the like. The really good traders understand markets; they don't just predict them."

--- Brett Steenbarger
  • #122
  • Nov 25, 2007 10:16am Nov 25, 2007 10:16am
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

  • #123
  • Nov 25, 2007 10:17am Nov 25, 2007 10:17am
Attitude is Everything……..By Francie Baltazar- Schwartz

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply. “If I were any better, I would be twins.”

He was a unique restaurant manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him. “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can to choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.

“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested. “Yes it is,“ Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good or bad mood. The bottom line: “It’s your choice how you live life.” I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six moths after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?”

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,“ Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.” “Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked. Jerry continued, “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He’s a dead man.’ I knew I needed to take action.” “What did you do?” I asked.

Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply….I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, “I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.” Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live life fully.

Attitude, after all, Is Everything.

  • #124
  • Nov 25, 2007 11:20am Nov 25, 2007 11:20am
One of the best things I have ever read !!! Now I no longer need to use my spell checker !!!

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  • #125
  • Nov 25, 2007 11:23am Nov 25, 2007 11:23am
It is not something related to trading... but more, something related to life... this is something someone said to me almost 30 years ago... I have never forgotten it... and I rank it as the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me...

"Stay Sweet" it's a long story, but if anyone is interested... PM me !!!
  • #126
  • Nov 25, 2007 5:07pm Nov 25, 2007 5:07pm
Quoting profitplay
Attitude is Everything……..By Francie Baltazar- Schwartz

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply. “If I were any better, I would be twins.”

He was a unique restaurant manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him. “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can to choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.

“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested. “Yes it is,“ Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good or bad mood. The bottom line: “It’s your choice how you live life.” I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six moths after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?”

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,“ Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.” “Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked. Jerry continued, “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He’s a dead man.’ I knew I needed to take action.” “What did you do?” I asked.

Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply….I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, “I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.” Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live life fully.

Attitude, after all, Is Everything.
Great piece of advice--- Thanks profitplay---

GL/GT
  • #127
  • Nov 26, 2007 4:51am Nov 26, 2007 4:51am
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~Mark Twain
  • #128
  • Nov 26, 2007 5:23am Nov 26, 2007 5:23am
Quoting profitplay

“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested.

This is all the FX beginners saying "it can't be that easy, else everyone would be doing it" when you tell them to disregard all the overcomplication, kill off all indicators, books, fundamentals..

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“Yes it is,“ Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations
And this is Sartre. Existentialism, freedom of choice(a nice simple essay is "Existentialism Is a Humanism").
Again - most people will just balk and deny. And then throw 500 "reasons" at you which really are just self-serving excuses to not make an effort at change.


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The bottom line: “It’s your choice how you live life.”

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Oh and I like Brett Steenbarger, too, he writes a lot of interesting stuff on psychology in his blog
Trust price. Know yourself.
  • #129
  • Mar 22, 2010 10:03am Mar 22, 2010 10:03am
And this is why I love going through my old saved threads. There's a lot of good info in here.
I dream, therefore I become.
  • #130
  • Dec 21, 2010 7:00pm Dec 21, 2010 7:00pm
Intuition is the result of consistent repetition.
  • #131
  • May 25, 2012 7:21am May 25, 2012 7:21am
The answer to all questions is written in the stars. Its simply a matter of connecting the right stars to form the correct solution.

-David Antoine-
  • #132
  • May 27, 2012 12:00am May 27, 2012 12:00am
"Win or lose, everyone gets what they want out of the market"
Ed Sekoyta

"I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up"
Jim Rogers

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  • #133
  • Aug 6, 2013 2:56am Aug 6, 2013 2:56am
hi Misticgenie,
could you please tel me where ios posted your statement? I caanot find it..
thanks
miko
Concentration - Discipline - Patience
  • #134
  • Last Post: Aug 6, 2013 4:40am Aug 6, 2013 4:40am
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